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First Falcon 9 Loss Leaves SpaceX Reeling, Challenges ISS Resupply Lines

Sunday’s loss of the 19th Falcon 9 rocket on its seventh mission to deliver cargo to the International Space Station has left SpaceX searching for answers and facing a potentially months-long grounding of its flagship launch vehicle. Complicating matters for the ISS program, the loss of the Dragon CRS-7 spacecraft follows on the heels of […]

Antares Orb-3 launch failure montage. Matthew Travis, Alex Polimeni, Elliott Severn, Ken Kremer and our colleague Charles Twine. Contributing to Zero-G News (ZeroGNews.com), AmericaSpace (AmericaSpace.com), Universe Today (UniverseToday.com) with the much-appreciated support from Jeff Seibert as well as Mike Barrett from Wired4Space (wired4space.com).
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Inferno Over Wallops! A first-hand Photo And Video Account Of Antares Launch Failure

Read the story with a full page of launch pad remote camera photos and video! Last month, Zero-G News had the opportunity to travel to Wallops Flight Facility, VA in order to cover the anticipated launch of an Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket to deliver the Cygnus Orb-3 spacecraft on a cargo resupply run to […]

Antares explodes. Photo Credit: Matthew Travis
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Antares Explodes, ISS Cargo Lost In Launch Failure

Launch of the Cygnus spacecraft was supposed to be the start of the third of Orbital Science Corporation’s eight NASA-contracted resupply missions to the International Space Station. Instead, Orbital and NASA are left picking up this pieces today after the company’s Antares rocket erupted into a roiling ball of fire after liftoff that consumed the […]

Successful launch of Grasshopper. Credit: SpaceX
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SpaceX Falcon 9R Rocket Explodes During Texas Test Flight

SpaceX experienced a rare but disappointing failure today when one of the company’s Falcon 9R (reusable) rockets exploded during a test flight at the SpaceX facility near McGregor, TX. It is unknown if the problem today will affect the scheduled August 27 launch from Cape Canaveral of a Falcon 9 carrying the commercial Asiasat 6 […]

Antares blasts off on the Cygnus Orb-1 mission.
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Engine Failure Investigation Slips Next Cygnus ISS Resupply Mission Into July

Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it has updated its Antares launch schedule for the Orb-2 mission to a date no earlier than (NET) July 1, 2014.  Orb-2 is the second of eight cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station under the company’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA. The new launch schedule reflects […]